South  America 


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Getting  Acquainted  witk 
Soutk  America 

Today  we  are  closer  to  South  America 
then  we  have  ever  been  before — closer 
geographically  because  of  the  Panama 
Canal,  closer  economically  because  of 
the  war.  Since  1913  our  trade  with 
Latin-America  has  grown  from  $389,- 
000,000  to  ^875,000,000. 

If  we  are  to  keep  up  this  new  relation, 
we  need  religious  as  well  as  commercial 
understanding.  The  Roman  Catholic 
Church  has  lost  its  hold  upon  the  lead- 
ers, and  the  people  are  now  more  inter- 
ested in  Protestantism  than  they  have 
ever  been  before. 

To  keep  up  our  trade  interests  in 
South  America  we  have  invested  ^80,- 
000,000  since  the  war  began;  beside  that 
amount  the  $5,505,000  Methodism  is 
asking  for  religious  work  looks  very 
small. 


Your  Money  W^ill  Preacli 

$10 

Will  furnish  needed  lantern  slides  on 
the  life  of  Christ. 

$50 

Will  purchase  a horse  for  an  itinerant 
preacher. 

$75 

Will  send  a national  preacher  to  theo- 
logical school  for  a year. 

$200 

Will  provide  equipment  for  a chapel. 

$350 

Will  pay  the  salary  of  a national  preacher 
for  a year. 

$800 

Will  build  a chapel  in  unoccupied  ter- 
ritory. 


$1,000 

Will  buy  land  for  a church  or  a par- 
sonage in  a city. 


From  our  44  schools  we  wish  108  more  to  grow. 


Xeacliing  a Continent 

In  some  of  the  South  American  re- 
publics the  proportion  of  literates  is  as 
high  as  fifty  per  cent,  in  others  it  is  as 
low  as  ten.  But  throughout  the  conti- 
nent, only  one  person  in  four  can  read. 

Yet  the  whole  continent  has  only  as 
many  teachers  as  there  are  in  the  state 
of  New  York.  The  governments  are 
trying  to  establish  schools  but  they 
must  have  help  from  the  missionaries, 
and  mission  schools  should  serve  as 
models  and  train  teachers. 

Our  church  now  has  only  44  schools, 
but  if  Methodists  do  their  part  in  the 
Centenary  Campaign,  we  will  have  152. 


Your  Money  Will  Teacli 


$10 

Will  pay  the  tuition  of  an  Indian  boy 
for  a year. 

$25 

Will  maintain  a child  in  primary  school 
for  a year. 

$30 

Will  keep  a student  in  advanced’school 
for  a year. 

$150 

Will  send  out  a national  primary 
teacher. 

$200 

Will  provide  the  equipment  for  a pri- 
mary school. 

$850 

Will  send  an  Indian  teacher  into  unoc- 
cupied territory. 

$900 

Will  buy  land  for  an  elementary  school. 


The  Sanitary  Expeditionary  Force. 


Tke  Gospel  of  Healing 

We  need  five  hospitals  in  South 
America,  one  in  the  capital  city  of  each 
republic  where  our  work  dominates. 

South  America  is  a continent  of  open 
sewers;  outside  of  the  large  cities  sanita- 
tion is  unknown.  It  is  estimated  that  in 
some  of  the  republics  seventy-five  per 
cent  of  the  babies  die  in  infancy. 

State  hospitals  are  not  adequate  to 
care  for  ten  per  cent  of  the  people,  and 
on  the  whole  continent  there  is  not  one 
first-class  evangelical  hospital.  In  some 
places  it  is  impossible  for  Protestants 
to  get  medical  treatment  unless  they 
recant. 

Yet  to  meet  this  situation  we  have 
done 


NOTHING 


Your  Money  H eal 


$50 

Will  care  for  an  out-of-door  clinic  patient 
for  a year. 

$150 

Will  maintain  a free  hospital  bed  for 
a year. 

$200 

Will  support  a national  nurse  for  a year. 

$250 

Will  buy  a share  in  a hospital  of  a 
hundred  beds. 

$360 

Will  pay  the  salary  of  a national  trained 
nurse  for  a year. 

$750 

Will  pay  the  yearly  salary  of  a nurse 
from  the  United  States. 


Published  by 

Tlie  Centenary  Commission 
of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church 

150  Fifth  Avenue 
New  York 
1918 


